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In a concrete-heavy city, landscapers hope Al-Azhar park will help unearth a greener Cairo - GREEN ACRES - 2004-08-01

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GREEN ACRES</I> - 2004-08-01
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Sunday, 2004, August 1
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www.businesstodayegypt.com/arttemplate.asp?ArtID=9&IssueNo=08&IssueYear=04&MagID=BT News Focus
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Joseph Krauss

Looking across Al-Azhar park, your eye is immediately drawn to the stark brown walls of the citadel and the jaunty domes of the Muhammad Ali mosque. But as you look off to the west, the city drops below the horizon, leaving only a surreal panorama of scattered minarets floating behind a grassy foreground. It's only when you walk up to one of the promontories that you can see the entire 75 acres of verdant gardens, swaying palm trees, blossoming orchards and, further out, the cities of the living and the dead stretching off into the distance, abutted only by the solemn Muqattam Heights rising up in the east.?
The layout of the park

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